Why is the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is getting the Global Women’s Leadership Award who has agreed to lowering the age girls for marriege? Asked Lee Rhiannon, Green Senator for New South Wales, Australia.
It is surprising to see that the Foreign Minister of Australia hosting a Prime Minister from a country also committed to the cause of women like the former who has made a breach of the cause by agreeing to marriage of girls under 18 in her country. Bangladesh has the highest rate of child marriage in the world.
A 2012 UNICEF Report noted that two out of three marriages in Bangladesh involve child marriages.
PM Hasina undermined the initiative by agreeing to a law that permits girls under age 18 to allow marriages under “special circumstances”. Human Rights Watch reports that there is no age limit on the marriage of girls under this exception.
RAB confesses kidnapping, killing of people and disposing bodies
In April 2017, Swedish Radio reported on a secretly recorded interview with a senior officer in the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), a counterterror unit of police and military, who admitted that the force routinely picks up people, kills them and disposes of the bodies.
— Lee is an Australian Greens Senator for NSW. Lee is the Greens spokesperson for housing, industry, gun control, animal welfare, democracy and local government.
Courtesy — https://www.facebook.com/lee.rhiannon/
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